Antonia Zerbisias
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Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Journalist |
Organization | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Antonia Zerbisias is a Canadian journalist associated with the Toronto Star from 1989 until she took early retirement from the paper on 31 October 2014. She has been a reporter and TV host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as the Montreal correspondent for the trade paper, Variety.
She was nominated for
Early life
Petros Zerbisias immigrated from
Career
Zerbisias has a BA in applied
In 1980 she returned to Concordia to earn her
Toronto Star
Zerbisias joined the Toronto Star as a TV columnist in 1989.[1] She was assigned to the Montreal bureau in 1991. In 1993, she returned to Toronto and became a media critic. She won the 1996 National Newspaper Award for critical writing for her columns about magazines; the award noting that Zerbisias "is not one to mince with words as she focuses on the subject matter at hand. She proceeds to give us her insights, analysis and critique not only with rhetorical, stylistic and intellectual rigor, but with gusto and passion, a rare commodity in today's bland politically correct journalism."[1] In 1997, she became TV critic and then, in 2003, was appointed media columnist.
Zerbisias' first blog for the Star, Azerbic [1] effectively went on hiatus in August 2006 and ceased publishing the following December. She continued as media critic until June 2007, when she became the social issues and cultural affairs columnist at the Toronto Star. In January 2008, she launched a new Star blog, with a focus on feminist issues, called Broadsides [2].
In April 2010, she ended her regular column to become a
Social media
On the day before retiring from The Star, during the controversy over allegations that
which went viral internationally and was translated into other languages.Disputes
While focusing on entertainment, media and cultural issues for the bulk of her career
English acknowledged that her ruling had elicited widespread criticism[16] and subsequently modified her assessment and criticized Farber and the Canadian Jewish Congress since in their complaint they did not "think to tell me that [Farber], along with dozens of others who marched with the Kulanu group, had worn a T-shirt that made its own ironic quip. That's context I sure wish I had known" and conceded that Zerbisias' comment "was intended as sarcastic irony, stock in trade for this columnist and blogger. But I think her attempt at irony failed here; the quip – as published without that context – was ambiguous and could be misunderstood",[16] adding "To be fair to Zerbisias, it should be made clear, though, that she did not 'make things up,' as Farber interpreted it."[16]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "In Your Face" Archived 17 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Ryerson Review of Journalism (Spring 2006)
- ^ "Antonia Zerbisias". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Antonia Zerbisias". NOW Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ Langan, Fred (2 December 2015). "CBC producer Mark Blandford was a pioneer in Canadian television". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
- ^ Insidemedia 2002—2003 Season. CBC.
- ^ "Jonathan Kay: Canada's left loses another radical voice | National Post". Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ^ Antonia Zerbisias [@AntoniaZ] (31 October 2014). "Hey folks. Thanks for your warm wishes as I leave @TorontoStar today but I am not leaving social mediazz or innerwebs. Stay tuned for Act II" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Twitter conversation about unreported rape goes global". The Star. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ Zerbisias, Antonia. "Feminism's online renaissance – Elle Canada". Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Authors – Antonia Zerbisias". Toronto Star.
- ^ Israel on the brain, by Jonathan Kay, National Post, 22 September 2009.
- ^ "T-shirts and sexual orientation". The Star. Toronto. 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Bernie Farber is not gay" by Corvin Russell, Canadian Dimension, 12 July 2009
- ^ a b c English, Kathy (11 July 2009). "'Gay' blog post was just not fair". Toronto Star.
- ^ "I’d like to reply to that Editor’s Note", Mark Steyn, Maclean's Magazine, 6 May 2010
- ^ a b c "Old principles and new media". Toronto Star. 18 July 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
External links
- Zerbisias' columns in the Toronto Star
- Azerbic – Zerbisias' former blog page at the Toronto Star
- "In Your Face", The Ryerson Review of Journalism (Spring 2006)
- Broadsides – Zerbisias' new blog page at the Toronto Star
- Antonia Zerbisias interview – Thursday, 9 October 2008